Still looking for more info on ArcGIS Online and reasons for your org to consider it? Esri’s Bern Szukalski (@bernszukalski) has done a nice job in a recent blog post titled “Enabling the Fifth Part of a Successful GIS” where he takes a hard look at the end user, however, he goes on in the post describing AGO and provides some awesome user examples courtesy of some power users in Utah at UDOT (See the UPlan website). Most noteworthy in the article are the following snippets that I picked up on and found very shareworthy:
- Every successful GIS has champions that helped lift it
- the real value of ArcGIS Online is not so much the features and functions that it provides; it’s the transformation it can create in the way organizations think about, and use, GIS
- Data previously locked in disparate files or proprietary applications could now be easily accessed by anyone
- User expectations are for live, dynamic maps shared via a link that users find in their inbox.
- UDOT execs refer to the benefits of AGO… “it’s changing the discussion about GIS.”
- Frank Pisani, UDOT’s GIS manager – “Historically I had to be the gatekeeper to all Web publishing,” Frank said. “But now with ArcGIS Online I can empower my users to manage and deliver their own content in an organized way.”
See more (including a video) Bern Szukalski of Esri discusses ArcGIS Online and Software to support the people
See also what Rory had to say in his post, our Geo-Future is Bright
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